"Gaga": The Real Whitey Bulger/Irish Mob Story

Francis X. “Gaga” Murray is a master storyteller. "Gaga": The Real Whitey Bulger/ Irish Mob Story is written in a unique style with all sentences rising and falling in a sing-song manner. The book gives new information about Whitey Bulger, World War II, Boston Irish War, Great Brinks Robbery, Plymouth Mail Robbery, Owney “The Killer” Madden, Elmer “Trigger” Burke, New England Mafia, and much more.
Whitey Bulger was indicted for 19 murders, the center of the nation’s worst FBI scandal, a weapons smuggler to the IRA, and an inspiration for the mobster played by Jack Nicholson in The Departed. After 16 years as a fugitive, he was arrested in Santa Monica with 20 guns and $800,000.
Gaga laughed at Whitey Bulger, made love to his bank-robber girlfriend, then helped her spend Whitey’s stashed money. In short, Gaga knows Whitey better than anybody.
"Gaga": The Real Whitey Bulger/ Irish Mob Story contains many photographs. The book has generated “I couldn’t put it down” praise for three main reasons: Gaga’s unique sing-song voice; the most definitive Irish mob book; and new Whitey Bulger information. Helping to produce this praise, after moments of self-reflection, was the hope for more life-changing insights.
Gaga was an international thief. The book describes him stealing in America, Canada, Europe, and Australia. It has chapters on gambling, seducing women, and gives new information about American soldiers in Japan during World War II. For example, consider these two World War II excerpts:
“The people lined up. In public places. On the beaches. On the roads. Some was hiding in houses. The war wasn’t completely over. There was still plenty of fireworks. Americans killed Japanese left. And right. Bazookas. Hand grenades. You’d be sitting there. All of a sudden. Hear mortars going off. It was out of control.”
“Small-heavy artillery. That soldiers carry. They’d get drunk. Kill Japanese guys. And GIRLS. The MPs come. ‘Knock it off.’ Everybody would scatter.
Hear machine guns going off. Go down the road. They’d be thirty. Forty Japanese. Spread all over the road. I don’t know how they choose them. But they was DEAD.
First two. Three months. I saw four. Five hundred dead Japanese. Almost all in groups. I’d be driving along. A soldier would fire shots. From the back of the jeep. Shooting at the Japanese. Because feeling miserable. And hating the Japanese.
Japanese people had their skirmishes. They might be going down the road. See ten GIs walking the road. They kill them. They’d get killed. Another group comes in. And they’d get killed. Another group comes in. And they’d get killed (raises voice).

Gaga enjoys pulling the reader in with detail. For example, consider these two Owney “The Killer” Madden excerpts:
“Receding-sandy hair. Five-five. A small guy. Owney wore regular pants. And short-sleeve shirts. Almost always a white shirt. Kept glasses in the shirt pocket. Outside he didn’t wear glasses. Inside the club. When reading something. He’d snap them on.
Owney liked scally caps. The southern scally caps. One day red. One day white. The next day blue. Put the scally cap on. Wear it all day long.
Prohibition made Owney a millionaire. Owney was smarter than Al Capone. A better businessman than Al Capone. He saw how publicity hurt Capone. Owney owned breweries. Hotels. Nightclubs. Slot machines. Champion boxers. And the n.....pool number.”
“Guess who’s sitting there? Wearing cowboy boots. At breakfast. The sheriff. In the breakfast nook. With a liquid morphine vial. And a needle. A NEEDLE (loud voice). Bingo. He wore the sheriff's shirt. The big muscles showing. In front of everybody (flaps arm down). Bang. ‘Qwirkk.’ ‘Slurrpp.’ He’s loaded on morphine. ‘Give me a napkin (groggy voice).’ He wipes the blood off. “Alright (pause). What do you want to do (aggravated voice)?’”